Cristina Urchueguía

Cristina Urchueguía (CH) studied music performance in Valencia as well as musicology, art history, and hispanic philology in Würzburg, earning her PhD in 1999 with a dissertation on the polyphonic mass in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in the sixteenth century. After working in Zurich and Göttingen at the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute she completed her habilitation on the comic Singspiel in the eighteenth century in 2009. In the following year she was appointed assistant professor at the University in Bern and achieved tenure in 2016. Since 2012 she is the central president of the Swiss Society of Musicology. In the same year she was elected member of the board of the Swiss Society of Humanities and Social Sciences, and since 2018 she is its vice president.